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Bedworth North & West Response Full Name of Organisation Please add your comment Response Ref Respondent Number 533 A. B. Bonsor See 441/10-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 472 A. Benn See 441/1-441/9 Proforma letter see response 535/1 449 A. Booth See 441/1-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 491 A. Brey See 441/1-441/9 Proforma letter see response 535/1 482 A. Cairns See 441/1-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 442 A. Chaplin See 441/1-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 324/1 A. Dobson N/A Object to Hospital Lane development of 676 houses on Green Belt See response 535/1 land; not poor quality or useless, but produces crops every year - local people enjoy seeing this and prefer it to remain; schools and doctors' surgeries are oversubscribed in the area and takes time for new ones to become a reality; recent new social housing has altered the area considerably - more noise, anti-social behaviour, inconsiderate persons, more cars and loud motorbikes. We have suffered enough, and more mass housing will dwarf our small road of private houses - not a fair distribution; flood risk is high with regular problems when it rains heavily - adding concrete will impede drainage and worsen the problem; noise pollution is high due to M6 and more housing suggests more traffic pollution; prefer to walk in green fields rather than a street of houses. Quality of life will be worsened, not improved, if this development goes ahead, and it will not provide a 'safe place where communities are more cohesive, equitable and empowered'. 726/1 A. Gandon N/A Opposition to new housing on Hospital Lane is predictable, but Noted. The Plan has a number of hope it will go ahead. NIMBYs need to be reminded that their policies within it to help ensure that homes were once greenfields. There is a clear need for new development provides social and housing nationally and I want to be part of a community that is environmental benefits. For example welcoming and whose character and social mix can change and the sustainable design and construction evolve as many people come and go. Where particular localities policy CLIM1, green infrastructure have a dodgy reputation, these often change for the better with an policy INF2 and urban character and influx of new people. design quality policy ENV3 BUT the development must be as good as it can be, i.e. density of new housing may need to be less - space is really important; with excellent community facilities, e.g.. including (or nearby) green 1 Response Full Name of Organisation Please add your comment Response Ref Respondent Number spaces for BMX, biking and skateboarding (as it is currently a long trek to Miners Welfare Park); ensure new schools have lots of community space, both inside and outdoors. 532 A. Hoxtable See 441/1-441/9 Proforma letter see response 535/1 08/2 A. Ransom N/A Disagree with plan to build 676 houses at Hospital Lane: a vast See response 535/1 amount of beautiful green woody areas will be replaced by large houses and an even noisier secondary school. Live close to the primary school, and every morning and evening faced with a barrage of parents parking across mine and my neighbours front drive. Adding a secondary school would add more chaos. Bought our house because of the beautiful fields at the back as well as a lovely place to walk the dogs and play football with my child. The fields provide a large recreational opportunity to many residents in and around this area. Re-consider building on such a valuable piece of land that many people in this area enjoy. 471 A. Sargent See 441/1-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 607 Anna Abbott N/A See above (606 Mark Abbott) See response 535/1 608 Anthony N/A See 606 see response 535/1 Erwin Abley 231/28 Arbury Estate Smiths Gore Noted. In April 2012, Full Council Locality 4: comments in respect of para 11.40 and Woodlands confirmed its commitment to place Green Belt Bedworth Woodlands into the Green Belt. § For reasons stated previously we object to the designation of further Green Belt land at the Woodlands as we do not believe the key tests in NPPF to have been met; and § In addition, we believe that some of this land has potential for a modest residential development area. That land, on the southern side of the proposed Green Belt area, has not been assessed as being of any sensitivity in the Landscape Character Capacity assessment (Volume 3: Site Analysis & Selection); § We have enclosed a concept plan within the attached report ‘Woodlands, Warwickshire: Opportunities and Constraints Appraisal’ which illustrates a concept for some 120 dwellings in this location. 2 Response Full Name of Organisation Please add your comment Response Ref Respondent Number 316/1 B. & E. See 441/10-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 Wilson 487 B. Cross See 441/1-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 484 B. E. Danks See 441/1-441/9 Proforma letter see response 535/1 438/1 B. Evans This productive agricultural Green Belt land provides home for See response 535/1 many types of wildlife, including bats, birds and mammals, some of them being protected species. Even if a piece of land is kept as a natural habitat, it would be small by comparison and would be placed in the middle of a housing estate, losing much of the wildlife in the process, by devastation caused to trees and hedgerows. 438/2 B. Evans Insufficient consideration to the points in comment 438/1. It See response 535/1 contradicts the council's wish to encompass ENV1 Policy, a policy which should be properly supported and not just given lip service. 438/3 B. Evans The proposed plan will put major strains on the health service, See response 535/1 schools and all other services, in an area where they are already struggling to cope. I see no evidence to suggest this has been effectively considered. 438/4 B. Evans It is insulting and annoying to think that your proposals of See response 535/1 providing a walkway and cycle path will increase the health standard in this area, as a development would be removing a far more natural network of footpaths that are currently used. A dedicated cycle path from the site to Bedworth's Town Centre would be difficult and expensive to achieve. We do not need a new housing estate to justify the need for cycle paths 438/5 B. Evans An extension of 676 low cost affordable and social type homes to See response 535/1 an existing estate that already consists of this type of housing with all the problems that this can bring should not even be considered, let alone put in a vision forward for an area. 438/6 B. Evans The plans own Sustainability document confirms that the site The SA is one piece of evidence proposal falls well short of being a viable asset to Bedworth's informing the overall decision making future. process. However, it should not solely be used to make decisions regarding sites. Its findings are meant to help mitigate issues in relation to policy and 3 Response Full Name of Organisation Please add your comment Response Ref Respondent Number site development. 575 B. Herriott See 441/1-441/9 Proforma letter see response 535/1 490 B. Jackson See 441/1-441/9 Proforma letter see response 535/1 445 B. Lundie See 441/1-441/18 Proforma letter see response 535/1 46/1 B. Lundie N/A Object to housing development at Hospital Lane: See response 535/1 Recreation - little recreational land in our immediate vicinity and many people exercise themselves and dogs. Solicitor advised the fields were greenfield, would not be built on and owned by Nicolas Chamberlaine and left to the people of Bedworth by Rev of Bedworth Parish for recreational purposes. Calling these fields as poor agricultural land amazes me as crops have been grown on the land every year. Wildlife - fields are the habitat of enormous amounts of wildlife - lesser spotted and greated spotted woodpeckers, great tits, blue tits, chaffinches, goldfinches, sparrows, thrushes and blackbirds. Wildlife in decline and will lose habitats and plantlife. Oak trees and hedgerows line the site - what will happen to these - tree preservation orders have mysteriously disappeared on developments. Flood water - My house and my neighbours are built on an 8ft concrete raft and every winter our gardens are under flood water. Has the area been tested for flood levels? Where will the surplus water flow when the development is bulit? Taking away fields that provide natural drainage will make the problem worse. Electricity supply - Regularly have electricity cuts now, so what will happen with so many more houses? Concerns about the safety of pylons and their magnetic fields on the site. Local infrastructure - Traffic congestion is appalling, especially at weekends since opening of Tesco, Aldi and Homeware stores. Not sufficient doctors, hospitals, etc. for 100s of new residents. Bus service inadequate for extra load. Nuneaton and Bedworth residents travel to Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, for treatment. Where will children play? Bedworth hardly has the infrstructure for such a development, and will eventually become part of Coventry or Nuneaton, taking away 4 Response Full Name of Organisation Please add your comment Response Ref Respondent Number greenspace. Unemployment - Already high umemployment in this area, so where will the jobs come from to support these extra families? Prologis and MIRA are for very specilised employees.